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Last month we learned that Gotham would be an origin series loaded with classic Batman characters. As Fox chirman Kevin Reilly put it at the time, the show will follow "the arc of how [the characters of Batman] became what they were... It's going to be this operatic soap that has a slightly larger-than-life quality."

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Bruno Heller wrote the pilot script and will serve as executive producer with the episode's director, Danny Cannon.

A young Bruce Wayne is also slated to appear in Gotham, with the show presumably ending when Batman dons his cape for the firs time. No official word yet on which villains will be appearing on the show – but we're of course open to all manner of speculation.